Latest block number in Bitcoin

Question

Could you please let me know how can I get the latest block number in bitcoin network. Kindly share the code if you have. Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

You can get the current block number of bitcoin in two ways. 

First Way:

you will need to install the complete bitcoin-core and its data(around 223GB) on your machine and you need to run that bitcoin-core software 24*7 so that it will update the data on your machine and will give you the current block height and its information.

You can download the full bitcoin-core through this link:

https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/

Once you download the bitcoin-core, go through the certain command which will help you develop and monitor bitcoin network.

You can find the commands here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments

Second Way:

You can directly scrap the data from the bitcoin explorer which gives us the up-to-date information of bitcoin-core networks such as all the transaction and its metadata. 

some of the bitcoin explorers are:

1.https://www.blockchain.com/explorer

2.https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC

To know about data scraping, go through the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping\